Good Quotes

[Undisputedtruth]

This is for the greedy b'stards.

?Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.?

― Mahatma Gandhi

[ruffers]

"I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure." - Ripley.

[Ridgley]

(Don?t hang the basket if you can?t reach it) meaning don?t over exert yourself just take your time and get it right - my mum

[Parkdrive]

My mum always trots out a saying which relates to personal finanaces, roughly translated from Turkish it goes " a man should only stretch his legs as far as his blanket can cover" and my late grandad used to say, again roughly translated from Turkish "a parent can give a child a whole vineyard, but a child will be hard put to give his parents a bunch of grapes" Both quaint but kind of relevant.

[Ridgley]

?ok iyi Parkdrive :)

[Parkdrive]

sa?ol Ridgley

[PeckhamRose]

Good thread MM!

A fave of mine from Quentin Crisp: "If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style."

And from The Big Lebowski: "[Phucket] dude, let's go bowling".

[Dopamine1979]

"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody" - Bill Cosby

[Annette Curtain]

This one's rather apt

I'm leaving because the weather is too good. I hate London when it's not raining.

Groucho Marx

[Siduhe]

Not so much catchy/clever but has personal resonance for me:

"If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it."

[Alan Medic]

"I've heard staff at my sons nursery using 'aks too and it horrifies me. I've also heard staff saying 'we was...' and ' you was...' I wouldn't mind so much but we are paying a fortune for him to attend and he's being supervised by people who don't talk proper...like!"

Extracted from a rare venture into the Family Room.

[Sue]

Alan Medic, are you sure you are on the right thread? :)

[Alan Medic]

Well I thought it was a good quote. Don't you?

[Atticus]

'Wikipedia has made university all but pointless' Alan Gordon Partridge

[flapjackdavey]

" He's a mentalist!" - alan partridge

[uncleglen]

Be kind to nerds- because you'll probably end up working for one- Bill Gates

[Lozellen]

"Plastic surgeons are always making mountains out of molehills..."

Dolly Parton

"Leslie and I have an amazing relationship and it's very physical, he still pushes all my buttons. People say 'oh but he's so much older than you' and you know what, I'm the one having to push him away. We have so much in common, we both love soup and snow peas, we love the outdoors, and talking and not talking. We could not talk or talk forever and still find things to not talk about."

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[Marmora Man]

GORE VIDAL

On US politicians - "The United States was founded by the brightest people in the country - and we haven't seen them since."

On the US electorate - "Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half."

On the press - "A writer must always tell the truth, unless he is a journalist."

On art and politics - "There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem."

[DaveR]

From today's Times:

"It is true that the Olympic Games are not political in spirit or in idea, but this gathering of men and women sounds a political note in a higher sense. Here there is afforded an opportunity for all, above all political differences, to learn to know one another and thus to promote understanding among nations."

The original author?

Joseph Goebbels

[Annette Curtain]

I have depths of insincerity yet unplumbed

Gore Vidal

[El Pibe]

a gem from wiggo

"To win Olympic gold in your home city in a velodrome would have been incredible, with three or four thousand people cheering you on. But to do it round the streets of wherever we are, it was phenomenal. Going through Kingston at the end there, the noise was amazing.

I was trying to soak it in because I had no memories of my last Olympics.

And it doesn?t get much better than this setting, in front of wherever we are, that castle.

It?s just so British, isn?t it?"